Motivational Quotes

Fear

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

- Frances Moore Lappe

Best Quotes about Fear

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.